On 9/16/2011 3:28 PM, Craig Bradney wrote: > John.. > > You have been told 2 very relevant things in the past.. > a) Check the svn revision number > b) You can subscribe to the commit log mailing list if you want to see what > gets committed. >> Size aside, If 1.4.0 is not significantly better than 1.3.3.14 then an >> awful lot of effort has been wasted. >> >> >> Interesting (but not significant) that the Scribus Win 32 package is so >> much bigger than the Scribus Linux 32 package. Perhaps more of the >> library code is compiled in. > This is completely irrelevant. With win32 and OSX binaries, we distribute Qt > and all other dependent > libraries. On Linux we have the luxury of not needing to do that. > >> But I do an apples to apples comparison,one night to the next, >> and use it as a measure of change. The flash screen date is usually >> behind the times and the compile number changes >> every 24 hours whether or not there have been changes. So for us >> outsiders the file size is the truest indicator of real change. >> > Its still a very very bad measure of change. Follow a) and/or b). You also > seem to ignore how your > system changes (which I hope it does with updates to the OS and libs being > applied) > > Thanks > Craig
I can't see how it's a poor test for what he's trying to do, i.e. verify if any change has been made, unless, of course, it's possible to get different results from the same compiler/libraries and the same source file. If that's the case it might be better to just compare the size the source file from day to day. -- Dale Erwin Lurigancho, Lima 15 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.26, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.18330) http://www.pctools.com/ =======
